Keying

Create mattes from blue, green, any color screen using the zMatte keyer

Multiple matte creation

Matte shrink, blur and wrap functions

DV and HD deartifacting

Sophisticated color correction and suppression

Light wrapping

Edge tools to color correct or blur only the edge

Integrated transform controls

Screen smoothing for unevenly lit blue and green screens

Architecture

Mac Retina Display Support

8, 16, 32 bit image processing

Multi-processor acceleration

GPU acceleration

Licensing

The DFT video/film plug-in is licensed on a per host basis. You can choose from: Adobe After Effects/Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro X/Motion, Avid Editing Systems, OFX hosts or a Multi-Host license which will run all video/film and OFX hosts on the same machine.

Develop

Enhancing

Selectively enhance any color to make it pop with little to no effect on other colors.

Photo by Jens Lindner on Unsplash

Fluorescent

Removes the green cast caused by fluorescent bulbs.

Photo by Jens Lindner on Unsplash

Haze

Reduces excessive blue by absorbing UV light and eliminates haze which
tends to wash out color and image clarity.

Photo by Thomas Kelley on Unsplash

High Contrast

Creates an extreme high contrast image.

Photo by Alex Ronsdorf on Unsplash

Kelvin

Degrees Kelvin is the standard unit of measure for color temperature which is
a way to characterize the spectral properties of a light source. Low color
temperature implies warmer (redder) light, while high color temperature implies
a colder (bluer) light. Presets for a number of different light sources and
conditions are provided in degrees Kelvin.

Photo by Christiane Nuetzel on Unsplash

Levels

Levels is an image adjustment tool which can move and stretch the brightness
levels of an image histogram. It has the power to adjust brightness, contrast,
and tonal range by specifying the location of complete black, complete white,
and midtones in a histogram.

Low Contrast

Match

Matches the brightness and color from one image and applies it to another.

Source: Photo by Paula Borowska on Unsplash

Target: Photo by Saud Sarosh on Unsplash

Ozone

Inspired by Ansel Adams’ Zone System for still photography, Ozone allows you
to manipulate the color of an image with incredible flexibility and accuracy.

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Polarizer

The greatest use of polarizing filters is to achieve a darkened, deep blue sky.
Our digital version of the Polarizer is designed to do just that. Through the use
of a matte and an adjustable gradient, the color of the sky can be adjusted.

Warm Polarizer

Combines the benefits of the Polarizer with a warming filter making it ideal for
portraits and scenics.

Photo by Takahiro Sakamoto on Unsplash

Selective Color Correct

Colors can be selectively isolated through the use of a matte and adjusted
using hue, saturation, brightness, gamma, contrast, temperature,
cyan/magenta, red, green, and blue controls.

Photo by Pietro De Grandi on Unsplash

Selective Saturation

The saturation of the image can be adjusted independently in the shadows,
midtones and highlights.

Photo by Oswaldo Martinez on Unsplash

Shadows/Highlights

Shadows/Highlights lowers contrast evenly throughout the image by
brightening shadow areas and darkening highlights. It is useful for correcting
dark foreground subjects due to strong backlighting as well as highlights that
are slightly washed out.

Photo by Jonatan Pie on Unsplash

Sky

Reduces UV light, haze and is pink tinted for added warmth and better colors.
It is especially useful for images shot in outdoor open shade and on overcast
days.

Photo by Thomas Kelley on Unsplash

Tone Adjust

Tone Adjust approximates the appearance of high dynamic range images by
adjusting the tonal values. Specifically, detail is recovered from the darker
portions of the images and can optionally be denoised.

Photo by Brand X Design

Color Paste

Color Paste takes the luminance values of the foreground image and pastes it as a color over the background.

Background: Photo by Linda Xu on Unsplash

Foreground: Photo by Bhavyesh Acharya on Unsplash

Composite

Composites a foreground over a background using a matte. Color correct, blur,
grain, transform, edge and matte manipulation controls help create a seamless
composite.

Drop Shadow

Drop shadows can be added to an image that has an Alpha channel. The
opacity, color, blur and transformation of the drop shadow can all be adjusted.

Edge Composite

Edge Composite automatically generates an edge matte from an existing Alpha
channel and allows you to mix, color correct or blur only the edge of the
foreground.

Holdout Composite

The Holdout Composite is a two-layer/track effect that realistically composites
images such as fire, explosions and smoke. This filter first creates a luminance
matte of the foreground and pastes it as black (or other color) over the
background. You then use one of the Blend Modes to place the foreground
over the held out background.

Light Wrap

Light Wrap helps blend the foreground into the background by making the color
of the background wrap into the foreground edges without softening the edge.

Math Composite

Math Composite combines two clips using one of the Blend modes. You can
choose from Add, Subtract, Multiply, Screen, Difference, Darken and Lighten.

Background: Photo by Austin Neill on Unsplash

Foreground: Photo by Vincent Guth on Unsplash

Non-Additive Mix

Known as a NAM, non-additive mix combines two images by controlling their
luminance level relative to each other as well as a set mix percentage. Back in
the day of video switchers and online editing, effects editors used a NAM to
combine smoke and fire to another image.

Foreground: Photo by Oleg Zhilko on Unsplash

Background: Photo by Lucas Filipe on Unsplash

Optical Dissolve

Optical Dissolve uses a power function to simulate an optical film dissolve. The
bright areas of the B side of the dissolve appear sooner than the darker areas.

Background: Photo by Rafael Leao on Unsplash

Foreground: Photo by Laura Ockel on Unsplash

Center Spot

Center Spot

Diffuses and blurs distracting backgrounds while keeping a center spot in
focus. The center spot can be moved, sized and the amount of blur can be
controlled.

Warm Center Spot

Combines the benefits of Center Spot with a warming filter making it ideal for
portraits and skintones.

Photo by Samuel Scrimshaw on Unsplash

Diffusion

Diffusion creates atmosphere by reducing contrast while creating a glow
around highlights or shadows using an extensive texture library.

Photo by Marina Vitale on Unsplash

Double Fog

The Double Fog filter creates a soft, misty atmosphere over the image by first
applying fog using a vanishing point along the direction of increasing distance
in the image. Then, a second pass blooms image highlights.

Photo by Martin Knize on Unsplash

Fog

The Fog filter creates a soft, misty atmosphere over the image and glows
highlights.

Photo by Alex Klopcic on Unsplash

Frost

Black Frost offers all the benefits of the Frost filter in a more subtle form. This filter subtly controls highlights, reduces contrast and provides a harder look than the Frost filter, while suppressing facial blemishes and wrinkles.

Photo by Alexandru Zdrobau on Unsplash

Mist

Mist

Creates atmosphere by reducing contrast while creating a glow around
highlights.

Warm Mist

Same as Mist but combined with a warming filter.

Cool Mist

Same as Mist but combined with a cooling filter.

Black Mist

A more subtle version of Mist, the Black Mist filter creates atmosphere by
reducing contrast, but with minimal glow around highlights.

Warm Black Mist

Same as Black Mist but combined with a warming filter.

Photo by Christopher Campbell on Unsplash

Net

Net

Softens and minimizes facial imperfections while retaining image clarity. Great
for portraits and people photography.

Warm Net

Combines all of the benefits of Net with a warming filter.

Photo by Rachael Crowe on Unsplash

Silk

Silk

Silk softens wrinkles, blemishes and fine detail to produce smooth skin textures
while retaining detail in coarse features such as the eyes, nose and mouth.

Warm Silk

Warm Silk offers all the benefits of the Silk filter while adding a diffuse warm tint to the shadows.

Photo by Joe Gardner on Unsplash

Bleach Bypass

Bleach Bypass is a film laboratory technique where, by skipping the bleach
stage in the color processing sequence, silver is retained in the image along
with the color dyes. The result is effectively a black and white image
superimposed on a color image. Bleach Bypass images have increased
contrast, reduced saturation, often giving a pastel effect.

Photo by Chris Barbalis on Unsplash

Cross Processing

Cross-processing is a photographic technique where print film (C41) is
processed in the set of chemicals usually used to process slide film (E6) or vice
versa. The final result yields images with oddly skewed colors and increased
contrast and saturation.

Photo by Jesse Collins on Unsplash

Film Stocks

Film Stocks is a unique filter that simulates 329 different color and black and
white still photographic film stocks, motion picture films stocks and historical
photographic processes.

Photo by Teresa Kluge on Unsplash

Flashing

Flashing allows you to use photographic filters to lower the contrast of your
shadows or highlights.

Photo by Stainless Images on Unsplash

Grain

Grain simulates film grain with control of size, intensity and softness.

Grunge

Overexpose

Overexpose simulates the overexposure that occurs when a film camera is
stopped.

Photo by Mads Schmidt on Unsplash

Three Strip

Known and celebrated for it ultra-realistic, saturated levels of color, the
Technicolor® Three Strip process was commonly used for musicals, costume
pictures and animated films. It was created by photographing three black and
white strips of film each passing through red, green and blue filters on the
camera lens and then recombining them in the printing process.

Photo by Rob Jaudon on Unsplash

Two Strip

The Technicolor® Two Strip process was the first stab at producing color
motion pictures and consisted of simultaneously photographing two black and
white images using red and green filters. This look creates an odd but pleasing
hand-painted look where faces appear normal and green takes on a blue-green
quality, while the sky and all things blue appear cyan.

Photo by Rob Jaudon on Unsplash

Color Gradient

Color Gradient colors and or darkens only a portion of the image giving you the
ability to simulate any Color Gradient filter. It is especially useful for changing
and enhancing the color of the sky.

Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash

Color Spot

Tints the image using presets for common photographic filters except for a
center spot which retains normal color. The center spot can be moved, sized
and the amount of blur can be controlled.

Photo by Bill Williams on Unsplash

Colorize Gradient

Using multiple colors, Colorize Gradient colorizes the image according to the
image’s brightness values.

Dual Gradient

Dual Gradient applies two photographic filters to the image which are blended
together with a gradient.

Photo by Heather Emond on Unsplash

Gels

Photographers, cinematographers and lighting designers use colored filters or
gels in front of lights. Whatever mood you wish to create, we have the colors
needed to achieve the effect.

Photo by Jacob Sapp on Unsplash

ND Gradient

ND (Neutral Density) Gradient darkens only a portion of the image using a
graduated transition between the darkened portion and the original image. It
selectively adjusts brightness without affecting color balance.

Photo by Sam Ferrara on Unsplash

Photographic

The most complete line of Kodak® filters for photographic uses is available in
the form of gelatin films and are known as Wratten® Gelatin Filters. Our
Photographic filter is a digital equivalent of the Wratten set and were created
using the spectral transmission curves for each optical filter.

Photo by Paul Morris on Unsplash

Radial Tint

Tints the image using multi-color, radially graduated filters.

Photo by Jason Wong on Unsplash

Sepia

Creates a warm brown tone for that nostalgic feeling.

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash

Skin Tone

A set of colorization filters to enhance skin tones.

Photo by Roksolana Zasiadko on Unsplash

Split Tone

Shadows, midtones and highlights can be individually tinted with the Split tone
filter.

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

Sunset

Sunset applies three photographic filters to the image which are blended
together with a gradient.

Photo by Mark Harpur on Unsplash

Tint

Tints the entire image with a selected color using a variety of colorization
modes.

Photo by Joshua Medway on Unsplash

DeBand

DeBand removes banding artifacts from an image by smoothing pixels in
banded areas while retaining detail.

Photo by Frantzou Fleurine on Unsplash

DeBlock

Blocking artifacts created as a result of high compression factors can be
removed with the DeBlock filter.

Photo by Nolan Issac on Unsplash

DeFog

Using advanced deweathering algorithms, Defog restores clear day contrasts
and colors of a scene taken in bad weather such as fog and mist.

Photo by Matt Hoffman on Unsplash

DeNoise

Removes film grain and noise.

Photo by Brady Bellini on Unsplash

Detail

Detail presents a new technique for performing selective sharpening, detail
enhancement and edge aware smoothing. Our approach decomposes the
image into three detail layers: Coarse, medium and fine. Each of the detail
layers can be manipulated separately in various ways, for instance, sharpening
or smoothing.

Transform

Color Suppress

Removes either blue or green from an image. This is usually used to remove
the blue or green light that commonly spills onto objects filmed in front of blue
or green screens.

Matte Repair

Matte Repair grows, shrinks or blurs a matte. It also is handy for cleaning up
impurities in the black or white areas.

Screen Smoother

Smooths out unevenly lit blue and green screens. By default, darker screen
areas are brightened. When working with poorly lit blue and green screens, it
is useful to apply the Screen Smoother prior to using zMatte. This will result in
a better key.

zMatte

Using proprietary matte extraction techniques, zMatte quickly and simply
creates mattes with minimal parameters even if you are dealing with fine hair
detail, smoke, or reflections. It is easy to use, yet provides the needed tools
when faced with good, bad, or ugly shots--tools such as multiple matte creation,
automatic spill suppression, sophisticated matte and edge manipulation, and
color correction.

Blur

Blurs the image with individual horizontal and vertical controls. It’s fast, high
quality and blurs outside the frame which removes the dark inward bleeding
edges of most blurs.

Photo by Michal Grosicki on Unsplash

Camera Shake

Chromatic Aberration

Chromatic aberration is caused by a lens having a different refractive index for
different wavelengths of light and is seen as fringes of color around the edges
of the image. This fringing is removed by un-distorting the individual color
channels.

Photo by Joel Filipe on Unsplash

DeFringe

Purple or blue fringing around overexposed areas is a result of sensor
overloading in video as well as digital still cameras. DeFringe isolates and
removes the various types of color fringing.

Depth of Field

Depth of Field can be added to a scene by isolating and blurring only a portion
of the image. The amount of blurring is directly proportionate to the luminance
of the matte settings, a gradient or an input image.

Photo by Ethan Robertson on Unsplash

Lens Distortion

Lens Distortion corrects for pin-cushioning and barrel distortion of camera
lenses. It is also useful for creating the look of a wide angle lens.

Rack Focus

Radial Exposure

Lightens and/or darkens the center or edges of an image to correct lens
vignetting.

Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash

Split Field

Split Field splits the image with a line that can be positioned, rotated and
blurred. On one side of the line, the image is blurred and on the other, it is in
focus.

Photo by Anthony Cantin on Unsplash

Vignette

A vignette, or soft fade, is a popular photographic effect where the photo
gradually fades into the background, usually in a circular or rectangular shape.
The vignette can be any color as well as thrown out of focus.

Photo by Srikanta H. U. on Unsplash

Wide Angle Lens

Simulates the effect of a wide angle lens.

Photo by Dawid Zawila on Unsplash

Ambient Light

Ambient creates light without a defined source and contributes to the overall
brightness of a scene without casting shadows.

Photo by Ryan Lum on Unsplash

Chroma Bands

Creates rainbow diffraction patterns.

Eye Light

Creates a targeted light to be placed around a person's eyes.

Photo by Sebastian Unrau on Unsplash

Fan Rays

Generates asymmetric fanned rays.

Flag / Dot

Flags and Dots are rectangular and circular lighting control devices used to
create shadow areas on a motion picture or photographic set. This concept has
been extended to digital so that areas of the image can be selectively
darkened.

Photo by Marcelo Matarazzo on Unsplash

Glow

The Glow filter creates glows around selected areas of the image.

Photo by Pascal Muller on Unsplash

Glow Darks

Glows and grows the darks areas of the image.

Photo by Ariel Lustre on Unsplash

Glow Edges

Glow Edges isolates lines and edges in an image and then adds glow only to
these areas resulting in a stylized look.

Photo by Jan Senderek on Unsplash

Hot Spot

Utilized in most lens flares, glow ball simulates the circular glow created when
a light source interacts with a lens.

Ice Halos

Ice halos are created when small ice crystals in the atmosphere generate halos
by reflecting and refracting light. Most notably, circles form around the sun or
moon as well as rare occurrences when the entire sky is painted with a web of
arcing halos.

Photo by Ales Krivec on Unsplash

Key Light

Using Key Light, an image can be relit by with either a directional or point light.
The result looks natural even though the relighting is done without computing
any scene geometry.

Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash

Lens Flare

Lens flares are produced by the scattering or flaring of light within a lens when
pointed into a bright light. Although an image aberration, lens flares can be
added for dramatic effect and are created by combing the following elements:
Caustic, Chroma Bands, Chroma Ring, Circle, Circles, Disc, Edge Streak,
Ellipse, Fan Rays, Hot Spot, Polygon, Polygons, Radial Streaks, Random
Spikes, Ring, Spikes, Spiral Rays, Star, Star Caustic, and Stripe.

Light

Light can be added to a scene where none existed before just as if you were
adding light at the time of shooting. Realistic lighting and shadow is introduced
using digital versions of lighting gobos.

Photo by Julia Komarova on Unsplash

Multi-Star

User definable multi-point star patterns are generated on highlights in the
image.

Photo by Pawel Bukowski on Unsplash

Radial Streaks

Short radial streaks emanating from the center point.

Rainbow

Recreates arced rainbows of spectral colors, usually identified as red, orange,
yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, that appear in the sky as a result of the
refractive dispersion of sunlight in drops of rain or mist.

Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

Random Spikes

Generates asymmetric radial rays.

Rays

Creates stunning and realistic light ray effects quickly and easily. Known as
volumetric lighting in computer graphics or crepuscular rays in atmospheric
optics, this dramatic effect adds polish and style.

Photo by Filipe Dos Santos Mendes on Unsplash

Reflector

One of the oldest and still most popular means of lighting an exterior set is by
taking a reflective surface and redirecting sunlight or artificial light exactly
where it is needed. Our silver and gold reflectors allow you to add white or gold
light into shadow areas without the squinting.

Photo by Alexandre Chambon on Unsplash

ReLight

Light can be added to a scene where none existed before. A complete set of
light source controls allow you to adjust the light just as you would at the time
of shooting.

Photo by Blake Lisk on Unsplash

Soft Light

Provides soft, digitally diffused and virtually shadowless light.

Photo by Chris Abney on Unsplash

Spikes

Long radial rays emanating from the center point.

Spiral Rays

Creates spiral rays.

Star

A star pattern similar to those created by lens flares.

Streaks

The Streaks filter creates horizontal or vertical streaks around highlights in the
image.

Photo by Allef Vinicius on Unsplash

Water Droplets

Simulates the circular, rainbow colored optical effects produced by tiny water
droplets in clouds, mist and fog.

Photo by Peter Hershey on Unsplash

Borders

Select from a variety of different pre-made borders or create your own.

Photo by Tradd Harter on Unsplash

Cartoon

Converts the image into a cartoon.

Photo by Ilya Yakover on Unsplash

Color Infrared

Color Infrared simulates infrared filters used in conjunction with infrared
sensitive film or sensors to produce very interesting false-color images with a
dreamlike or sometimes lurid appearance.

Photo by Karsten Wurth on Unsplash

Color Shadow

Creates a high contrast image overlayed with a gradient.

Photo by Emre Karatas on Unsplash

Day for Night

Day for Night simulates a technique used for shooting exteriors in daylight
made to look like they were photographed at night.

Photo by Daniel Bowman on Unsplash

Harris Shutter

The Harris Shutter filter uses separate images for the red, green and blue
channels or offsets the individual channels of a sequence in time.

Infrared

Infrared simulates infrared filters used in conjunction with infrared sensitive film
or sensors to produce very interesting black and white images with glow in
highlight areas.

Photo by Fab Lentz on Unsplash

Looks

Looks is a unique filter meant to simulate a variety of color and black and white
photographic/film looks, diffusion and color grad camera filters, lighting gels,
film stocks and optical lab processes.

Pastel

Pencil

Pencil converts your image to a pencil sketch.

Photo by Ludde Lorentz on Unsplash

Texture

Applies textures to an image for a stylized look.

Photo by Luke Braswell on Unsplash

Time Blur

Time Blur mixes frames together to create interesting motion effects. This filter
is also useful for smoothing out film grain and video noise which can cause
problems when pulling a key or generating a matte.

X-Ray

Simulates the look of X-Ray images.

Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash

DFT v1 Downloads

Customers upgrading to DFT v1 will receive a new activation code. Product codes from other products will NOT activate DFT.

Version 1.1 Released 1/18/2018

32 Bit Photoshop SupportDFT can now be applied to 32 bit images in Photoshop.

Frost FilterA Frost diffusion filter has been added. Frost glows highlights and reduces contrast while softening facial blemishes and wrinkles. It is a combination of the Silk and Mist filters.

OpenCL GPU Support in ResolveOpenCL GPU support in Blackmagic Design Resolve was enhanced resulting in significant speed increases. Note: Setting Resolve’s Hardware Configuration > GPU Processing Mode preference from Auto to OpenCL may be necessary on Windows systems to realize the speed increase.

Color ManagementThe Video/Film version of DFT now uses the OpenColorIO standard originally developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks for its color management. OCIO is compatible with the Academy Color Encoding Specification (ACES) and is LUT-format agnostic, supporting many popular formats. In DFT, you can load custom color configuration files, apply color space conversions, as well as use other controls for fine tuning. The Color Management window is opened by selecting View > Window > Color Management.

Frame Selection in Video BrowserA Time Bar was added to the DFT user interface in Video/Film hosts. Moving the slider loads a new frame into the Viewer. Note: The Time Bar is only available in host applications that support this feature.